This issue’s swatching journey begins with Gudrun Johnston’s sweet little cropped jacket with mid-length sleeves and a busy ribbed stitch pattern. I chose it because it is both breezy and substantial, providing an ideal framework for showing what happens when you make the simplest of yarn substitutions. I saw three particularly intriguing scenarios here: a glamorous flickering single; a pebbly but languid two-ply; and a crunchy, worsted-spun two-ply that begs for the great outdoors. READ FULL ARTICLE